<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br>Hello Stephan,<br><br>Fair comment, maybe a "Ubuntu Personal SOHO server" could be a spinoff from Ubuntu Desktop, namely provide ClarkConnect (http://clarkconnect.com) type install options when installing Ubuntu Desktop?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Tony<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Stephan Hermann <sh@sourcecode.de><br>To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<br>Sent: Friday, August 1, 2008 2:32:00 PM<br>Subject: Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience<br><br> Hi,<br><br>I don't want to comment this mail in particular, but regarding the<br>difference of SysAdmins and HomeAdmins: There is a difference of people<br>who are used to "graphical configuration stuff which hides a lot of<br>important things which are important to real sysadmins".<br><br>IMHO the usecase for Ubuntu Server is to reach the server market like<br>debian or rhel or sles does...not to feed the person who is coming from<br>the windows xp "I'm the admin" user.<br><br>Yes, you can use even the desktop version of Ubuntu to install server<br>services like apache, icecast, ftpd etc. But this is not the server<br>usecase. <br><br>And on a sidenote, I don't think web uis for admin work will help<br>to secure a root server for personal homepages. And with this web uis I<br>don't mean webapps like RHN or Landscape.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>\sh<br><br> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:14:06 -0700 (PDT)<br>Anthony Watters <<a ymailto="mailto:tonyozwatters@yahoo.com" href="mailto:tonyozwatters@yahoo.com">tonyozwatters@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> [...]<br><br>-- <br>Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a><br></div></div></div><br> </body></html>